Futureproof Festival is an international AI culture and ideas festival from Oct 28-30, 2026, at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, presented by BC + AI. Send the rough sketch, first draft, demo, workshop, performance, or half-invented format you want to try in a serious, friendly room.
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Hosted at H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, the room where the Vancouver AI community has already been gathering in force.
Futureproof Festival is an international AI culture and ideas festival for honest, grounded conversations about how AI changes work, culture, creativity, and public life. Vancouver is the host city. The conversation crosses borders. The 2026 edition is practical, curious, and public-facing.
Priority review by July 31, 2026 · rolling after
You do not need a perfect abstract. We are looking for useful tension, lived experience, careful questions, and work that feels like it belongs in the international AI conversation now.
A talk you keep waiting for at every other event and nobody gives. Bring us the first version.
The thing you've learned, built, broken, or figured out that keeps tugging at you.
Talk, workshop, demo, performance, experience, panel, or strange little format. If it needs a new name, give it one.
First-time speakers are welcome. So are rough ideas, first drafts, and honest questions with a sharp center.
Five minutes, no formal abstract required. Tell us the spark, why it matters, and what shape it might take. Weird and specific is better than polished and vague.